{"id":1456,"slug":"blockchain","name":"blockchain","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:42:00.997526+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"3b725989-8c48-4dd1-8a0e-8778c96d4973","slug":"s12e18-actually-its-about","subject":"s12e18: Actually, It's About...","title":"Actually, It's About...","publish_date":"2022-06-09T21:02:28.048092+00:00","year":2022,"month":6,"season":12,"episode":18,"episode_label":"s12e18","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s12e18-actually-its-about/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2085,"context":" … And on the other hand, you've got all of this brilliant web3 <mark>blockchain</mark> stuff which I'm trying very, very, very hard to figure out where it … ","reading_minutes":10},{"id":"46559936-560f-4d33-9689-23dc7018540b","slug":"s09e18-cursed-takes-multiplayer-figma-and-low","subject":"s09e18: Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper","title":"Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper","publish_date":"2021-04-22T03:50:36.710242+00:00","year":2021,"month":4,"season":9,"episode":18,"episode_label":"s09e18","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e18-cursed-takes-multiplayer-figma-and-low/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2574,"context":" … <mark>Blockchain</mark> <mark>blockchain</mark> <mark>blockchain</mark>, will people please shut up about <mark>blockchain</mark>.\n\n<mark>Blockchain</mark>\ntends\nto be used as a snake-oil techno-solutionist approach to a problem that doesn’t … ","reading_minutes":13},{"id":"d08e98d8-9b08-4849-b1eb-4f57d0ba947b","slug":"s08e02-software-from-trauma-or-fingers-crossed","subject":"s08e02: Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020","title":"Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020","publish_date":"2020-01-12T23:45:08.456000+00:00","year":2020,"month":1,"season":8,"episode":2,"episode_label":"s08e02","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s08e02-software-from-trauma-or-fingers-crossed/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2957,"context":" … 1.0 The things that caught, etc…\nI’m sorry, I wrote about <mark>blockchain</mark>. Hopefully the next part makes it up for you.\n1.1 But <mark>blockchain</mark>\nMy … ","reading_minutes":15},{"id":"343c7b86-2b64-494c-abc2-b3d436874c7c","slug":"s3e16-if-its-just-us-seems-like-an-awful-waste-of","subject":"s3e16: If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right?","title":"If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right?","publish_date":"2016-04-25T00:00:00+00:00","year":2016,"month":4,"season":3,"episode":16,"episode_label":"s03e16","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s3e16-if-its-just-us-seems-like-an-awful-waste-of/","is_premium":0,"word_count":579,"context":" … climate change, but instead means finance technology, and increasing ways to apply the <mark>blockchain</mark> and bitcoin to things. One suspects that the former might be way more relevant … ","reading_minutes":3},{"id":"fe5ace9a-65d4-470e-96c0-b1c733bf4cc7","slug":"s2e14-what-youll-reap-foo-thoughts-the-next","subject":"s2e14: What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation","title":"What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation","publish_date":"2015-08-04T00:00:00+00:00","year":2015,"month":8,"season":2,"episode":14,"episode_label":"s02e14","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s2e14-what-youll-reap-foo-thoughts-the-next/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1814,"context":" … The <mark>blockchain</mark>, sure, totally, but Bitcoin is still batshit crazy. I mean, the idea of actual value accruing from nigh-on worthless processing. And I still don't … ","reading_minutes":9},{"id":"2550d037-1428-48ec-ad92-0538c9e78605","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-seventy-four-depth-not","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Seventy Four: Depth, Not Breadth","title":"Depth, Not Breadth","publish_date":"2014-10-08T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":10,"season":null,"episode":174,"episode_label":"episode 174","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-seventy-four-depth-not/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1424,"context":" … to get him to explain to me what the big deal about the <mark>blockchain</mark> - the specific mathematical/technological innovation behind the current crop of cryptocurrencies - that's gotten … ","reading_minutes":7}]}